A conversation with @patrickc on old programming languages, software at industrial scale, and AI's effect on economics/biology/Patrick's daily life.
00:15 - Why Patrick wrote his first startup in Smalltalk
03:35 - LISP chatbots
06:09 - Good ideas from esoteric programming
How do you think we should be pricing for very expensive models (o3) or ultra-long context windows (~100k LOC) in Cursor?
API pricing, higher subscription tier, something else?
When will we be able to add AI coworkers to Slack to help take on misc operational work?
Updating spreadsheets, creating channels, running "cron job" business workflows, conducting Deep Research/Operator-style tasks. Same API as a human (bidirectional DM's, calls, shared links)
More than anyone else, YC and @paulg made starting a company legible to me and my cofounders.
Was an honor to sit down with @garrytan and the latest batch!
Michael Truell (@mntruell), co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind @Cursor_ai, joined @garrytan to talk about building one of the fastest-growing startups of all time—and why he's betting everything on a world beyond code.
He walks through the early insights that
How do you think we should be pricing for very expensive models (o3) or ultra-long context windows (~100k LOC) in Cursor?
API pricing, higher subscription tier, something else?
Who uses AI agents?
How do agents impact output?
How might agents change work patterns?
New working paper studies usage + impacts of coding agents (1/n)